Jottings on Judges
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Jottings on Judges
1.7 As Adoni-Bezek acknowledged that his judgment was just, so at the Great Assizes, all unbelievers will acknowledge that God’s judgment upon them is just. God will render to each one according to his deeds (Ps 62.12; Pro 24.12; Rom 2.6) and, though men may currently deny that, on the Day of Judgment every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Phil 2.10-11). Those who – like the dying thief (Lk 23.41) acknowledge that they deserve only wrath, will be spared hereafter; but those who don’t, invite God’s everlasting punishment.
1.14 Othniel, a nephew of Caleb, won the hand of Achsah, daughter of Caleb. She knew her father better than her husband did. She knew her father’s generosity. So she encouraged Othniel to ask her father for a field. Caleb had already given Othniel his daughter’s hand in marriage: Achsah was now urging her husband to be bolder. Then, in v15, she takes it upon herself to personally ask her father for even more: not content with the field, she asks him for springs of water. And Caleb exceeds her expectations and gives her not just a spring, but two.
All this reminds us that when we are brought into the family of God, we are encouraged by scripture to boldly ask God for the greater gifts. And Achsah shows us the boldness of the child of God, who rightly reads her father’s heart, and even then her expectations are exceeded by the superabundant generosity of God. We cannot ask too much of God: His willingness to give is greater than ours to ask. He is the one who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think (Eph 3.20).
1.7 As Adoni-Bezek acknowledged that his judgment was just, so at the Great Assizes, all unbelievers will acknowledge that God’s judgment upon them is just. God will render to each one according to his deeds (Ps 62.12; Pro 24.12; Rom 2.6) and, though men may currently deny that, on the Day of Judgment every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Phil 2.10-11). Those who – like the dying thief (Lk 23.41) acknowledge that they deserve only wrath, will be spared hereafter; but those who don’t, invite God’s everlasting punishment.
1.14 Othniel, a nephew of Caleb, won the hand of Achsah, daughter of Caleb. She knew her father better than her husband did. She knew her father’s generosity. So she encouraged Othniel to ask her father for a field. Caleb had already given Othniel his daughter’s hand in marriage: Achsah was now urging her husband to be bolder. Then, in v15, she takes it upon herself to personally ask her father for even more: not content with the field, she asks him for springs of water. And Caleb exceeds her expectations and gives her not just a spring, but two.
All this reminds us that when we are brought into the family of God, we are encouraged by scripture to boldly ask God for the greater gifts. And Achsah shows us the boldness of the child of God, who rightly reads her father’s heart, and even then her expectations are exceeded by the superabundant generosity of God. We cannot ask too much of God: His willingness to give is greater than ours to ask. He is the one who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think (Eph 3.20).